Biggest asshole design moves - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=MightyMax;29451616]I hate those shitty usb cords that come with iPods.... 2 weeks after using it it gets ripped and shocks you when you touch it...[/QUOTE] Apple make horrible cables. I took my sync cable into the shop and he knew exactly what I was going to say before I got the whole thing out of my pocket.

[QUOTE=Squad;29445307]I always load with keys in my pocket. Cell phone in my pocket, and magnetic strip cards in my pocket. I don't load it when it is currently running though, usually. But hell, not really an asshole design move, it's hard to design something to prevent a super cooled electromagnet from destroying shit in your pockets.[/QUOTE] Ha, and you think those magnets are strong. I used to work as an intern on a lab at The Nijmegen university. We had our lab right below the magnet research lab, where they had one of the strongest magnets on the planet. It was the one that could generate a magnetic field so strong, it could levitate a frog. Whenever they were doing testruns, we could throw paperclips in the air and they would stick to the ceiling. Then, a couple minutes later when they shut it down, it would suddenly rain paperclips. Man, that was an awesome place.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;29448779]That's the point. If it was running at 60FPS (no, not limited via a frame-limiter of V-sync) it would have dropped to the 40's and that's noticeable. And I've never gotten picture tearing when I've had very high FPS.[/QUOTE] I will assume you aren't sure what picture tearing is. If your refresh rate is 60 or even 90 or 95 or any number and you get 180FPS you will get picture tearing. This is why they have vsync as an option. It allows you to only update as many frames as your monitor can handle so you don't get it. [img]http://www.girlgamer.com/site_media/thumbs/articles/2011/03/01/5-3_jpg_650x10000_q85.jpg[/img] Is an example of picture tearing. [editline]26th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=V12US;29453187]Ha, and you think those magnets are strong. I used to work as an intern on a lab at The Nijmegen university. We had our lab right below the magnet research lab, where they had one of the strongest magnets on the planet. It was the one that could generate a magnetic field so strong, it could levitate a frog. Whenever they were doing testruns, we could throw paperclips in the air and they would stick to the ceiling. Then, a couple minutes later when they shut it down, it would suddenly rain paperclips. Man, that was an awesome place.[/QUOTE] That does sound pretty awesome. I've seen metal items get stuck to MRI machines before lol.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;29453797]Tearing is annoying as shit. Also, by setting VSync on (and thus limiting your max framerate) you make your videocard work less, make less heat and consume less energy. Win-win situation.[/QUOTE] Sometimes it causes weird mouse lag. Not often though.

I have v-sync enabled on anything that supports it, no mouse lag issues yet. I wonder whats happening with your PC.

[QUOTE=Wheeze201;29398958]When people use summer, winter, etc. to define a time in the year instead of using Q1-4. Especially when video game developer do it. Theres different seasons on different parts of the worlds god damnit.[/QUOTE] This is actually a tactic used to give devs some flexibility when it's released. [editline]27th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CountNoobula;29441966]You are probably like 12. [/QUOTE] Well, how does that work? All the younger people would have grown up whilst they did have right clicks, whilst the older ones remember the glory days of ending all arguments with a 'got right click :v:'

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;29454082]I have v-sync enabled on anything that supports it, no mouse lag issues yet. I wonder whats happening with your PC.[/QUOTE] Maybe it's a very shitty implementation of V-Sync that causes mouse lag? Or maybe it's a fake VSync, where it renders ahead at it's normal framerate then only pushes each frame out at 60FPS. Or something, fuck I don't know.

my card bounces between 30 and 60 FPS with vsynch on a lot of games, which makes for weird mouse issues sometimes

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;29454082]I have v-sync enabled on anything that supports it, no mouse lag issues yet. I wonder whats happening with your PC.[/QUOTE] I don't know. For a vast majority of games, there isn't a noticeable lag, but for some, its noticeable (not unplayable mouse lag mind you, like you feel your mouse lagging behind by little bit). Also, speaking of mouse lag, full screen in Audiosurf, on any computer I've ever has noticeable mouse lag. Its not nearly as bad on my newest one, but its still there. Wide variety of configurations from AMD and intel, Pentium III to Quadcore, Nvidia to ATI. They all do it. I wonder why. Might have something to do with V-sync.

V-sync seems to cause a lot of mouse lag on Source games. I can't play when it takes 1 second for my movement to be registered :v: I always set fps_max to 60 to avoid tearing.

[QUOTE=Demache;29455889]Also, speaking of mouse lag, full screen in Audiosurf, on any computer I've ever has noticeable mouse lag. Its not nearly as bad on my newest one, but its still there. Wide variety of configurations from AMD and intel, Pentium III to Quadcore, Nvidia to ATI. They all do it. I wonder why. Might have something to do with V-sync.[/QUOTE] That's because Quest3D (the engine Audiosurf runs on) is right there with Gamebryo in terms of quality

the playstation network's security.

[QUOTE=ze beaver;29344679]This, so much. The older Rainbow Six games (the best R6s :buddy:) did this, autosave is a bitch sometimes. I liked the one in HL2, it's probably the only autosave that didn't rape me when I failed.[/QUOTE] The only part autosave fucked me is when I was trying to get that "little rocket man" achievement in ep2. I left gnomey with alyx when she was getting healed, and accidentally left him there when we left the mines. Ive never been so pissed at a game in my entire life.

[QUOTE=lavacano;29456127]That's because Quest3D (the engine Audiosurf runs on) is right there with Gamebryo in terms of quality[/QUOTE] Never played a Gamebryo game, but I going by that comparison, I can't imagine it being good.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;29456865]:fuckyou: WHERE LEEDJUN :fuckyou: :fuckyou: NEVUR FURGIV :fuckyou: :fuckyou: NEVUR FURGET :fuckyou: They're claiming they did it.[/QUOTE] kl

[QUOTE=Demache;29456388]Never played a Gamebryo game, but I going by that comparison, I can't imagine it being good.[/QUOTE] Gamebryo gets a lot of flack because of Oblivion/Morrowind/Fallout 3/New Vegas, but really, most of it is because Bethesda has crap QC, not because the engine is bad. Civilization IV used Gamebryo quite well. So did a bunch of other, widely varying games. The only ones to get criticism for a bad engine were Bethesda-made (or influenced) ones. I'll be honest - I like a lot of Bethesda's games. I loved Oblivion. I liked Fallout 3. I'm super-psyched for Skyrim. I'm honestly looking into applying for a job there, since they're the closest big game developer to me. But they have the worst quality control ever. You know how, when Valve makes a game, they polish it and remake it until it's the best fucking thing imaginable? Bethesda doesn't buy into that whole "iterative development" thing. They're like "we'll just fix it in the sequel". They focus on making as much game as physically possible, not making the best possible game. Sometimes they get lucky, and they get parts right the first time. Quite a few quests are very memorable. Dialog can be good too. But then you notice that there's game-breakingly bad balance on some stat, or how the AI is completely fucktarded (to use a technical term). They're probably the only company where the users make a patch with a changelog literally five thousand entries long. Long story short: don't blame Gamebryo. They did nothing wrong. Blame Bethesda.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;29456865]:fuckyou: WHERE LEEDJUN :fuckyou: :fuckyou: NEVUR FURGIV :fuckyou: :fuckyou: NEVUR FURGET :fuckyou: They're claiming they did it.[/QUOTE] I hate how the whole internet seems to [I]love[/I] anonymous and thinks that everything that happens on the internet is because of them :sigh:

[QUOTE=gman003-main;29456967]Civilization IV used Gamebryo quite well.[/QUOTE] Whoa, holy crap. Gamebryo's fucking awesome, and I never thought I'd say that. But regardless of where the problem lies with Bethesda's games, Quest3D is in fact a shitty engine for actual games. Mostly because it was designed for quick scratch-together demos.

About the V-Sync, I never see any tearing(maybe I just have great monitors? I dunno, but I leave it off so I can see just how well my card performs. It always makes me happy to see 300fps while playing Episode 2 at 1920x1200 and 16x AA, etc.

This just happened to me. Accidentally booted up my computer with my roommate's printer plugged in, and it crashed during boot. Next time I turn it on... [img]http://i.imgur.com/YURWY.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/paGX7.png[/img] THEN WHY EVEN GIVE THE OPTION IN THE FIRST PLACE not to mention it churned for 30 minutes before telling me "hurp couldn't figure it out, just restart plz"

[QUOTE=Itszutak;29459313] THEN WHY EVEN GIVE THE OPTION IN THE FIRST PLACE [/QUOTE] Reminds me of a certain art site: *1 New Submission* "Oh boy, new art!" *Submission has been deleted by the uploader* "THEN WHY ARE YOU WASTING MY TIME"

How windows only configures updates when you shut down your machine. I plugged in a sound card my computer teacher gave me to see if it would work(no drivers existed for win7, no big deal it was like 6 years old or something) and so I shut it down and pulled the card out but the damn thing was still running! Because Windows had downloaded updates while I was trying to find drivers for the thing so now it had to take its own sweet time enabling them. Why not do the configuration stuff in the background while the machine is running and swap out the nescessary files next time you log in?

[QUOTE=Itszutak;29459313]This just happened to me. Accidentally booted up my computer with my roommate's printer plugged in, and it crashed during boot. Next time I turn it on... [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/YURWY.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/paGX7.png[/img_thumb] THEN WHY EVEN GIVE THE OPTION IN THE FIRST PLACE not to mention it churned for 30 minutes before telling me "hurp couldn't figure it out, just restart plz"[/QUOTE] Because you can't cancel during the attempting to repair stage, but you can during the stages after that. Not sure why it isn't greyed out or something, though.

Cameras that require proprietary bullshit to extract/play videos onto your computer. Goddammit, it even saves them in some kind of .MOD format. And apparently there's nothing out there that can convert this into something known by mortals.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;29464120]Cameras that require proprietary bullshit to extract/play videos onto your computer. Goddammit, it even saves them in some kind of .MOD format. And apparently there's nothing out there that can convert this into something known by mortals.[/QUOTE] MOD files are used in quite a bit of things unfortunately. Well, maybe not unfortunately...

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;29462665]How windows only configures updates when you shut down your machine. I plugged in a sound card my computer teacher gave me to see if it would work(no drivers existed for win7, no big deal it was like 6 years old or something) and so I shut it down and pulled the card out but the damn thing was still running! Because Windows had downloaded updates while I was trying to find drivers for the thing so now it had to take its own sweet time enabling them. Why not do the configuration stuff in the background while the machine is running and swap out the nescessary files next time you log in?[/QUOTE] Why would you do something like that? That's why we have an IT department, if you want to be some kind of hacker, get linux, you crazy madman.

[QUOTE=Contag;29465390]Why would you do something like that? That's why we have an IT department, if you want to be some kind of hacker, get linux, you crazy madman.[/QUOTE] Linux =/= Hacking Some people use ubuntu because it's free.

Buttons without tactile feedback. You know, those soft buttons that you press down really hard because it's impossible to tell when the button press has actually registered. Fuck those. [editline]27th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=jimhowl33t;29464120]Cameras that require proprietary bullshit to extract/play videos onto your computer. Goddammit, it even saves them in some kind of .MOD format. And apparently there's nothing out there that can convert this into something known by mortals.[/QUOTE] Open it up in a hex editor and try to figure out their format! Well, that's what I would try to do. I doubt they actually bother encrypting the files or anything crazy like that, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out.

[QUOTE=LinuX;29467281]Linux =/= Hacking Some people use ubuntu because it's free.[/QUOTE] I wasn't being serious, although, if I were, I'd be generating some content.

[QUOTE=Larikang;29467293]Buttons without tactile feedback. You know, those soft buttons that you press down really hard because it's impossible to tell when the button press has actually registered. Fuck those. [editline]27th April 2011[/editline] Open it up in a hex editor and try to figure out their format! Well, that's what I would try to do. I doubt they actually bother encrypting the files or anything crazy like that, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out.[/QUOTE] Take your .mod file and rename it file.mpg Open it up. ?????? I don't actually know this meme.